Archive for November, 2005

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Introducing The Daily Journal … Feeva, Skype, Google and More

Om Malik, Saturday, November 26, 2005 at 1:38 PM PT Comments (4)

One of the great joys of an extended break between work days is that you get to do a lot of thinking. And a lot of sleeping, which somehow always gives me annoying neck cramps. (That explains the slow posting.) The upside is that it prompted me to think of a new category for the [...]

EasyReach, desktop access for Blackberry

Om Malik, Saturday, November 26, 2005 at 1:00 AM PT Comments (4)

A few weeks ago I wrote about a little company called SoonR, that hooked into consumer desktops using Google Desktop Sidebars and gave access to files, or allowed email access over the air on pretty much any mobile phone. Since then Avvenu launched its own version of mobile-desktop access (pdf), that also uses the Google [...]

Dark Clouds over Skype?

Om Malik, Friday, November 25, 2005 at 11:40 AM PT Comments (10)

Despite the general euphoria about Skype’s retail launch in the US, there are some disturbing developments in the Skype-world that make you wonder about the future of eBay-Skype integration.
Andy Abramson, who is supposed to be on vacation in Europe has dug-up information that some Skypers’ are headed to the exits. For instance, Andy reports, that [...]

Palo Alto, where broadband is cheaper than coffee

Om Malik, Thursday, November 24, 2005 at 11:26 AM PT Comments (7)

Bill Gurley, general partner at Benchmark Capital, and an early investor in Tropos “Mesh WiFi Everywhere” Networks calls University Avenue in downtown Palo Alto utopia. “Its 75 degrees, sunny and near perfect in how he looks,” says Gurley. More like… “wireless utopia.” With an unaturally high geek-to-human ratio (not to mention start-ups to venture capital [...]

Kent Washington Unwires

Om Malik, Thursday, November 24, 2005 at 10:41 AM PT Comments (0)

City of Kent Selects Vivato for Downtown Wireless Hot Zone

XBox 360, crash boom fizz

Om Malik, Thursday, November 24, 2005 at 9:01 AM PT Comments (1)

XBox 360 crashes, causes heartbreaks and high blood pressure and unleashes a million (plus one) Microsoft jokes.

nGage, shutdown for now

Om Malik, Thursday, November 24, 2005 at 8:56 AM PT Comments (1)

Nokia puts nGage to sleep, for now. It is not dead though… just sleeping!

FCC commissioner Abernathy resigns

Om Malik, Thursday, November 24, 2005 at 8:54 AM PT Comments (0)

FCC commissioner Kathleen Abernathy resigns.

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